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Chicks hatch from their eggs. Credit: Otwarte Klatki/Andrew Skowron. CC BY 2.0. As H5N1 avian influenza spreads in birds around the United States and elsewhere, causing farmers to cull tens of millions of chickens and other farmed birds, baseless conspiracy
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Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has demanded that Fox News “cease all dissemination of false white nationalist, far-right conspiracy theories” in a letter sent to the network’s leaders and owner Rupert Murdoch. In the document, published by The New York
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Does the so-called “Great Replacement Theory” share any common ground with other contemporary conspiracy theories like Pizzagate or Q-Anon? According to one UAlbany professor, the conspiracies may vary, but there is a link: A belief in a national or global
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Were Australian Lawmakers Considering Ban on People Growing Food? | Snopes.com In spring 2022, officials in the Australian state of Victoria were considering legislation that would prohibit people from growing their own food. Fact Check In April 2022, a lengthy
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This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. A shadow box above Rebecca’s dining-room table,
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Brad Moline, a fourth-generation Iowa turkey farmer, saw this happen before. In 2015, a virulent avian flu outbreak nearly wiped out his flock. Barns once filled with chattering birds were suddenly silent. Employees were anguished by having to kill sickened
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From 19th-century anti-Semitic caricatures to disinformation linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Rothschild international banking dynasty has been a favourite target of conspiracy theorists blaming it for the world’s ills. Now an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Vienna seeks
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IN “THE GREAT GATSBY”, Tom Buchanan, a boorish plutocrat, recounts what he learned from a book called “The Rise of the Coloured Empires”, by a man called “Goddard”. “It’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it,” says Buchanan.
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This is the first of several conversations about the mass shooting in Buffalo. This hour, we discuss how people like the 18-year-old alleged gunman become radicalized to believe conspiracy theories like the ‘great replacement theory.’ In his 180-page manifesto, the
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 16, 2022 (NEW YORK) — A self-proclaimed white supremacist shot 13 people—10 of them fatally, and almost all of them Black—in a supermarket in a largely Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York on Saturday, a crime which local authorities
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